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The application for The European Rural Youth Parliament (ERYP) has started. If you are a young person from a rural area of Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Latvia, North Macedonia, Slovakia or Spain and you care about rural development challenges as well as your local community, apply by 28th of August. The gathering will take place in …

From June 5 to 7, 2019, the 4th Latvian Rural Community Parliament was held in Zaļenieki, Jelgava Municipality creating the dialogue between active citizens from rural areas and policy makers. The aim of the event was to identify actions to be implemented in the next two years for creating the sustainable and modern opportunities in rural and small town communities …

As a pre-event of the European Rural Parliament, not less important, the second European Rural Youth Parliament will take place in Asturias, Spain from 4 till 6 November 2019. More than 70 young professionals from around 10 countries will be gathering to state youths’ perspective on European Rural manifesto. Later, constructive discussions with European Parliament representatives will be held in …

An experience visit of Moldavian delegation was organised in Latvia from 17 to 21 of October by Latvian Rural Forum within the framework of a project financed by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Latvia. Delegation members, interested in rural development by fortifying the local initiatives and diversifying the local economy, visited good practice examples in Sēlija. Local NGOs introduced …

Till the end of 2018 Latvian Rural Forum in a cooperation with partners form five Baltic Sea countries – Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is working to motivate people to find their OWN solutions, how they could add more physical activity to their life and enjoy JOY of physical activity as the part of the project „Villages on …

Erasmus+ project was leading by Stowarzyszenie LGD Dolina Raby 20 month, starting from 1 of September 2016 until 30 of April 2018 in strategic partnership with 3 organizations: Fundacja Dzieła Kolpinga w Polsce Kolpingovo dielo na Slovensku Latian Rural Forum The main goal of the project was develop of adult education solutions in glocalization challenges by cooperation between 4 organizations from 3 …

The understanding of Concept of Bioeconomics is poorly recognized among local development stakeholders, although many initiatives related to Bioeconomics have been implemented all over Latvia. The goal of the Forum is to move forward common understanding of the Concept and raise awareness of bioeconomics among different stakeholders, who are interested to promote new approaches for regional development. Alongside to raising …

The ERYP is organized by the association “Latvian Rural Forum”, “Latvian 4H” and Village Action Association of Finland and it is organized to prepare for the European Rural Parliament in October this year, which is a civil society movement of rural regions, and is intended to bring the attention of European politicians and policy makers to rural civil society voice. …